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New safeguarding data from a three-year period has recently been published by the Church of England. The data is for new concerns reported to the Church in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and relates to all its work. The reports range from concerns about possible risk to direct allegations of abuse. Over the three-year period, the...

The Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice has released the second of its biannual Racial Justice reports. Mandated to drive ‘significant cultural and structural change on issues of racial justice within the Church of England’, the Archbishops’ Commission’s job is to support the implementation of the 47 recommendations of the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce Lord Boateng has...

Church House Westminster, which hosts some meetings of the General Synod together with some of the National Church Institutions, has been awarded an Eco Church Bronze Award for steps taken to help achieve net zero carbon. The Eco Church Award, given by A Rocha UK, a Christian environmental charity, is given to churches and other...

Bishops propose prayers of God’s blessing for same-sex couples C of E’s links to historic transatlantic slavery on display at Lambeth Palace Transform Care through a National Care Covenant, says Archbishops’ Commission Church Website Provider has saved the UK Church £2.15million Traidcraft goes into administration Millions of children starving worldwide ** Editor:   Please encourage your...

Heavenly Father, We look on with desperation at the events unfolding in Turkey and Syria and turn our faces towards you, our sovereign Lord. Your profound and powerful love brings hope, even in the midst of the most devastating circumstances. While we feel distant and helpless, we know that you are present and able to...

Devastating earthquakes have recently killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria. Hundreds of buildings have been destroyed. Survivors are facing freezing conditions and need urgent aid. As we go to press, more than 24,000 people have been killed, and 17 million have been affected. They urgently need shelter, food and medical aid, or they...

The Church of England’s General Synod has welcomed proposals which would enable same-sex couples to come to church after a civil marriage or civil partnership to give thanks, dedicate their relationship to God and receive God’s blessing. Synod members also voted to “lament and repent” of the failure of the Church to welcome LGBTQI+ people...

Enslavement: Voices from the Archives, was recently opened to the public at Lambeth Palace Library, in central London, and will run until 31st March 2023. Items in the exhibition are from the library’s archives, which were studied in detail for research by the Church Commissioners for England into links to historic transatlantic chattel slavery. The...

– into historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery and announces new funding commitment of £100m in response to findings Back in June 2022 it was reported that the Church Commissioners’ endowment had historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery. The endowment traces its origins partly to Queen Anne’s Bounty, a fund established in 1704. In response to...

The Archbishops’ Commission on Reimaging Care has proposed “a radical and inspiring vision” for adult social care in England. ‘Care and Support Reimagined: a National Care Covenant for England’ calls for a rethinking of attitudes to care and support; a rebalancing of roles and responsibilities; and redesigning the social care system. The National Care Covenant...

Church Edit, part of the UK’s leading Christian software company, celebrates a major milestone this year as it reaches 20 years since they started their church website builder. The founder, Kyle Cottington, was re-designing his local church’s website back in 2002 and saw the importance that the internet would bring to the church and how...

Traidcraft PLC – a Christian group that has spent years campaigning for fair trade – has gone into administration. The stands were familiar to many churchgoers, with almost 3,000 churches in the country selling Traidcraft products at some point in their 40-year history. The brand cited the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and soaring...